Robert Lemos is an independent technology and science journalist focusing on computer security, cybercrime, space exploration and enterprise-technology issues. He has won three awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, including the national Sigma Delta Chi award for his coverage of the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm while at CNET News.com in 2003.
Mr. Lemos works as a freelance technology journalist. He currently acts as the editor-at-large for SecurityFocus, a security news and information site owned by Symantec Corp. In that role, he provides daily independent journalism and investigative articles covering security incidents, malicious code, vulnerabilities and cybercrime. Mr. Lemos also writes for Wired News as an occasional correspondent covering space exploration and space science as well as for CIO.com covering enterprise-technology issues.
He has also written technology news stories for the Front of the Book section in PC Magazine and served as the magazine’s SecurityWatch columnist for the magazine from 2006 to 2007.
Prior to his freelance work, Mr. Lemos spent eight years as a staff writer at ZDNet News and as a senior staff writer at CNET News.com, which purchased ZDNet in 2000. He also lived in Japan between 1990 and 1997, during which time he researched artificial intelligence applications, worked in international business, and got his start in journalism as the Associate Editor of Computing Japan, an English-language magazine covering the Japanese computer industry. He has written over 2,000 articles, covering computers, security, privacy, cybercrime and technology’s effect on society. He’s even penned a haiku or two.
Mr. Lemos is a graduate of Cornell University, where he got his B.S. in electrical engineering with a focus on computer science. Oh, and this is a different Robert Lemos.
Mr. Lemos is available for freelance work as time permits. Those interested can contact him through the Web site.